| Description |
1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The polyphony of cultural landscape study: an introduction / Paul Groth and Chris Wilson -- J.B. Jackson and the play of the mind: inquiry and assertion as contact sports / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- J.B. Jackson as a critic of modern architecture / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz -- Learning from Brinck / Denise Scott Brown -- Looking down the road: J.B. Jackson and the American highway landscape / Timothy Davis -- The monument and the bungalow: the intellectual legacy of J.B. Jackson / Peirce Lewis -- Crossing the American grain with Vesalius, Geddes, and Jackson: the cross section as a learning tool / Grady Clay -- Basic "Brincksmanship": impressions left in a youthful mind / Jeffrey W. Limerick -- Observations of faith: landscape context in design education / Tracy Walker Moir-McClean -- On modern vernaculars and J.B. Jackson / Gwendolyn Wright -- What (else) we talk about when we talk about landscape: for a return to the social imagination / George L. Henderson -- Normative dimensions of landscape / Richard H. Schein -- Private property and the ecological commons in the American West / Mark Fiege -- Gender, imagination, and experience in the early-twentieth-century American downtown / Jessica Sewell -- Campus, estate, and park: lawn culture comes to the corporation / Louise A. Mozingo -- The enacted environment: examining the streets and yards of East Los Angeles / James Rojas -- Medicine in the (mini) mall: an American health care landscape / David C. Sloane |
| Summary |
As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes--a far more recent development--has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepening, and refining our understanding of the intricate webs of social and ecological spaces that help to define human groups and their activities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996
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| SUBJECT |
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996 fast |
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Landscape assessment -- United States
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Cities and towns -- United States
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Human geography -- United States
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ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
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Cities and towns
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Human geography
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Landscape assessment
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilson, Chris, 1951 December 23-
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Groth, Paul Erling
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| ISBN |
9780520935907 |
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052093590X |
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1417525681 |
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9781417525683 |
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1283373580 |
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9781283373586 |
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9780520229600 |
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0520229606 |
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9780520229617 |
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0520229614 |
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